Nakayama, Hyogo

Hisashi Nakayama, Hyogo JP

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20090017570

SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - In a semiconductor laser device, a plurality of light-emitting elements emitting light with different wavelengths are integrated on a substrate. Each of the light-emitting elements includes, on the substrate, an active layer and cladding layers respectively provided on top and bottom of the active layer. One of the cladding layers provided on top of the active layer is an upper cladding layer having a mesa ridge portion. An etching stopper layer for forming the ridge portion is interposed between the ridge portion and the other portion of the upper cladding layer. The thickness of the etching stopper layer varies among the light-emitting elements.

01-15-2009

Hisayuki Nakayama, Hyogo JP

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20090085007

OPHTHALMIC COMPOSITION FOR CONTACT LENS - Disclosed are; a method for suppressing adsorption of a refreshing agent and/or chlorobutanol by a contact lens in an aqueous ophthalmic composition for contact lens containing a refreshing agent and/or chlorobutanol, as well as for suppressing pH decline due to degradation of chlorobutanol, wherein the method comprises preparing the composition in the form of an oil-in-water type emulsion. An ophthalmic composition for contact lens in the form of an oil-in-water type emulsion containing a refreshing agent and/or chlorobutanol is also disclosed.

04-02-2009

20110105625

OPHTHALMIC COMPOSITION FOR CONTACT LENS - Disclosed are; a method for suppressing adsorption of a refreshing agent and/or chlorobutanol by a contact lens in an aqueous ophthalmic composition for contact lens containing a refreshing agent and/or chlorobutanol, as well as for suppressing pH decline due to degradation of chlorobutanol, wherein the method comprises preparing the composition in the form of an oil-in-water type emulsion. An ophthalmic composition for contact lens in the form of an oil-in-water type emulsion containing a refreshing agent and/or chlorobutanol is also disclosed.

05-05-2011

Patent applications by Hisayuki Nakayama, Hyogo JP

Jumpei Nakayama, Hyogo JP

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20090038772

INDUCTION MELTING APPARATUS EMPLOYING HALIDE TYPE CRUCIBLE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE CRUCIBLE, METHOD OF INDUCTION MELTING, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING INGOT OF ULTRAHIGH-PURITY FE-, NI-, OR CO-BASED ALLOY MATERIAL - There is provided an induction-melting apparatus capable of exhibiting high refining performance without inflicting damage to a crucible even if a halide-compound base refining flux is used upon induction-melting of an ultrahigh-purity high melting-point metal, having a melting point reaching 1500° C., and a method for induction-melting using the same. There is also provided a melting method for enabling production of ultrahigh-purity Fe-base, Ni-base, and Co-base alloying materials, each having an impurity level of (C+O+N+S+P)<100 ppm, and Ca<10 ppm, and in the form of a large ingot. Further, with the induction-melting apparatus, a plurality of tubular segments are disposed so as to be cylindrical in shape, a gap in a range of 1.5 to 15 mm in distance is provided between the respective tubular segments adjacent to each other, and a layer composed of any substance selected from the group consisting of single chemical elements of halides of metal elements of the specific of the Periodic Table of the Elements, or from mixtures of the halides, oxides, and carbides, or nitrides of the metal elements is formed in each of the gaps, and on an inner peripheral surface of a peripheral body part of a crucible. There is also provided method for induction-melting an Fe-base alloy, and so forth, using a halide-base flux while forcibly cooling the crucible. A refining flux composed of any selected from the group consisting of metal elements of the Groups IA, IIA, or IIIA of the Periodic Table of the Elements, oxides thereof, halides thereof, halide single elements or halides selected from the group of halides, or mixtures of the metal elements, and the oxides thereof is added to be thereby turned into a molten state, primary melting is executed by holding a state of a molten metal being in contact with the refining flux before tapping, the molten metal is caused to undergo solidification inside a mold, thereby producing a primary ingot and subsequently secondary melting is executed by an electron-beam melting method whereby while the primary ingot is sequentially melted in a water-cooled copper mold at a low pressure, the molten metal as-solidified state is pulled out from an outlet side of the water-cooled copper mold, thereby forming an ingot product.

METHOD FOR PRODUCING ALLOY INGOT - Disclosed is a method for producing alloy ingot including: a step of: charging alloy starting material into a cold crucible in a cold-crucible induction melter, and forming melt pool of the alloy starting material by induction heating in inert gas atmosphere; a step of continuing the induction heating and adding first refining agent to the melt pool, and then reducing the content of at least phosphorus from among impurity elements present in the melt pool; and a step of forming alloy ingot by solidifying the melt, the phosphorus content of which has been reduced. The first refining agent is mixture of metallic Ca and flux, where the flux contains CaF

06-14-2012

Patent applications by Jumpei Nakayama, Hyogo JP

Katsuhiko Nakayama, Hyogo JP

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20100083725

PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING RING-SHAPED MEMBER - A method of producing a ring-shaped member is provided in which a material loss is eliminated, the process cost can be reduced, and a ring-shaped member can be easily obtained from a pipe member by a small number of steps. The method includes steps of: inwardly projectingly shaping a flange portion

04-08-2010

20100083727

PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING RING-SHAPED MEMBER - A yield which is a ratio of the weight of a ring-shaped member to that of a stock material, and a yield which is a ratio of the ring-shaped member to a blank are improved, and the cost is reduced. In a method of producing a ring-shaped member in which a ring-shaped member is obtained from a longitudinally elongated annular blank

04-08-2010

Maiko Nakayama, Hyogo JP

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20110226050

RIM MOUNTING DEVICE FOR TIRE TESTING DEVICE, MAGNET MOUNTING METHOD, RIM REPLACING DEVICE AND TIRE TESTING DEVICE - A rim mounting device configured in such a manner that, even if a permanent magnet breaks due to impact produced during mounting thereof by magnetic attraction, the rim mounting device can be handled easily after the breakage of the permanent magnet. The rim mounting device is provided to a tire testing device having a spindle for rotating a tire and is adapted that a rim is mounted to the tip of the spindle. The rim mounting device is provided with: a rim mounting section provided to the tip of the spindle, having a rim mounting surface capable of making contact with the rim, and having mounting recesses formed in the rim mounting surface so as to be arranged side by side; permanent magnets inserted in the mounting recesses, respectively, and generating magnetic force for attracting the rim to the rim mounting surface; and scatter suppressing members. The scatter suppressing members are provided in the mounting recesses, respectively, and when the permanent magnet inserted in each mounting recess breaks, suppress scatter of fragments of the permanent magnet.

09-22-2011

20120085158

PNEUMATIC CIRCUIT FOR TIRE TESTING DEVICE, TIRE TESTING DEVICE, AND TIRE TESTING METHOD - A pneumatic circuit whereby small amounts of variations in pneumatic pressure in a tire occurring during tire testing can be adjusted in a short time. The pneumatic circuit includes an air supply source which generates compressed air to be supplied to a tire retained in a tire testing device; a pressure regulating valve which regulates the pressure of the compressed air generated; a discharge/supply valve provided downstream of the pressure regulating valve and by which compressed air is supplied to, or discharged from, the tire; a pressure detection unit provided downstream of the discharge/supply valve and which detects the tire pressure inside the tire; and a volume adjustment mechanism provided between the pressure regulating valve and the tire and which increases or decreases the volume of compressed air in an airflow path between the tire and the pressure regulating valve, as well as in the tire.

04-12-2012

Takeshi Nakayama, Hyogo JP

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20090008131

Flexible printed-circuit board - A flexible printed board that is adapted to high-speed transmission and can mount a plurality of connectors at low cost is provided. The board comprises a flexible printed board body

01-08-2009

20110128060

DELAY ADJUSTMENT DEVICE AND DELAY ADJUSTMENT METHOD - Provided is a delay adjustment device for adjusting delay of a strobe signal, which specifies when to read a data signal on a data line, with respect to the data signal in order to perform data transfer with an external memory. A testing unit

06-02-2011

20120112737

IC CURRENT MEASURING APPARATUS AND IC CURRENT MEASURING ADAPTER - Provided is an IC current measuring apparatus provided between an IC and a substrate. The IC current measuring apparatus electrically connects each of a plurality of IC-facing terminals and a different one of a plurality of substrate-facing terminals. Especially, resistances are each inserted into a path between an IC terminal targeted for measurement and a substrate terminal corresponding thereto. Furthermore, the IC current measuring apparatus is provided with terminals each used to measure a voltage between both ends of an inserted resistance corresponding thereto. Accordingly, a measurer who measures current flowing through an IC-facing terminal can measure the current flowing through the IC-facing terminal by providing the IC current measuring apparatus between the IC targeted for measurement and the substrate and measuring a voltage between both ends of an inserted resistance corresponding to the IC terminal through which current he/she wishes to measure flows.

05-10-2012

20120122400

PROXIMITY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS INCLUDING FIXED HOUSING AND MOVABLE HOUSING ROTATED ENDLESSLY - One array antenna including three induction coils is formed on an application integrated circuit of a fixed housing. Eight array antennas, each of which is arranged in a manner similar to that of the array antennas of the application integrated circuit, are formed at intervals of 45 degrees around a rotation axis on an imaging process integrated circuit of a movable housing. A controller selects one of the eight array antennas of the imaging process integrated circuit so that a magnitude of a difference between a rotation angle of a movable housing and a rotation angle of the movable housing becomes equal to or smaller than 22.5 degrees based on the rotation angle of the movable housing, and controls a stepping motor so that a selected array antenna opposes to the array antenna on the application integrated circuit.

ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DEVICE, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Provided is an electronic circuit system that reduces at least one of a constraint on a positional relation between two electronic circuit devices and a constraint on the number and an arrangement of coils included in each device, when close-coupled wireless communication is established. In the electronic circuit system, wireless communication utilizing inductive coupling between antennas is established between first and second electronic circuit devices. The second electronic circuit device includes an electronic circuit, a plurality of antennas, a connection information generation unit and a connection switching unit. The connection information generation unit selects one of the plurality of antennas to be paired with an antenna included in the first electronic circuit device for use in wireless communication, and the connection switching unit switches one or more of the plurality of antennas to be connected to the electronic circuit.

PROXIMITY CONTACTLESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SELECTING APPROPRIATE ENCODING METHOD ACCORDING TO BANDWIDTH BETWEEN ANTENNAS - A comparator circuit compares a test pattern generated by a test pattern generator circuit, with a test pattern transmitted to a memory card and returned from the memory card. A control circuit determines a bandwidth corresponding to frequency components correctly transmitted between a host apparatus and the memory card, based on the returned test pattern, and selects an encoding method requiring a maximum available bandwidth. The control circuit generates a notification message indicating the selected encoding method, and encodes the notification message using the selected encoding method, and transmit the encoded notification message to the memory card. The control circuit establishes communication between the host apparatus and the memory card, when receiving a response message including an acknowledgement to the notification message, from the memory card.

09-26-2013

20140056368

CONTACTLESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DIPOLE ANTENNA - Provided is a contactless communication system in which each device performing communication in the system includes a dipole antenna having a length which is less than half of wavelength of a clock frequency of digital baseband signals which are communicated. The dipole antennas are disposed in opposing positions to one another. The contactless communication system performs short distance contactless communication of the digital baseband signals using a frequency band which does not include a resonant frequency of the dipole antennas.

02-27-2014

Patent applications by Takeshi Nakayama, Hyogo JP

Yoshihiro Nakayama, Hyogo JP

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20100281903

EVAPORATOR AND COOLING DEVICE - Service life of the compressor is extended. The evaporator is provided with the housing having the suction port connectable to the suction portion of the compressor in order to evaporate at least part of a droplet or misty working fluid in the housing by a suction effect of the compressor through the suction port, comprising a filter installed in the housing, the filter dividing a space in the housing into the first space for generating the droplet or misty working fluid and the second space for communicating with the suction port, the filter being inclined away from the suction port as advancing upward, and the filter transmitting therethrough vapor resulting from evaporation of the droplet or misty working fluid while capturing the droplet or misty working fluid.

11-11-2010

20100293992

CONDENSER AND COOLING DEVICE - In the condenser provided with two of the degassing chambers separated by a cooling fluid, communication between the degassing chambers is prevented even if a pressure difference is increased between the degassing chambers. The condenser has the housing having the vapor inflow port connectable to the discharge portion of the compressor, the first degassing chamber, in the housing, communicating with the vapor inflow port, and the second degassing chamber, in the housing, arranged above the first degassing chamber across the partition portion, and the passing portion for permitting a cooling fluid to flow from the second degassing chamber to the first degassing chamber, wherein the first degassing chamber is separated from the second degassing chamber by the cooling fluid in the passing portion, and the passing portion has a pressure head space for containing a specified volume of cooling fluid so as to absorb a variation in a pressure difference between the first degassing chamber and the second degassing chamber.

11-25-2010

20110174009

COMPRESSOR AND REFRIGERATING MACHINE - A compressor and a refrigerating machine which enable an easy disposal of a lubricant, are friendly to the natural environment, and have simple configurations, are provided.